More on the blurb brouhaha

[jd]

Something to consider....

I have no idea what kind of money Pynchon has made from his writing...
I mean he had that grant that was, what, $50,000 a year for five
years?  I imagine that he's not getting an incredible amount on
royalties considering what is now his probably rather small market,
except for maybe college courses with Lot 49 as one of the required
texts...

I wonder if he took / is going to take a more active hand in the
marketing for the new book because of this?  I doubt he's about to go
broke any time soon... I don't think I understand how much writers
generally get paid.  For example, Jonathan Lethem is a pretty
wide-spread name, but he still goes on book reading tours and such,
and I wonder if it's because he has to or because he wants to, and
then again, Tony Vigoritto has published only one book as far as I am
aware (Just a Couple of Days) and I haven't heard anything out of him
other than that, now he has a second book out and he's saying he's
going to be able to focus solely on writing now without another source
of income.  So, I don't know.  And perhaps it's rude to consider
(since Pynchon's monetary status is none of my goddamn business,
really).

On 7/27/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Oops, I guess they've turned around now ...
>
> --- Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > We're STILL on this?  What's REALLY interesting
> > is that Doug and Robt. appear to exist in some sort
> > of curved space such that, as they've continually
> > backed away from each other to avoid each other's
> > projectiles (bullets, arrows, throwing knives,
> > blowgun darts, whatever, choose yr weapon) over
> > the years, they've now found themselves back TO
> > back, albeit still firing off into the distance ...
>
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